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Fantagio will be debuting a second actor group called SURPRISE U as a second 5urprise. When asked if 'Produce 101's Ong Sung Woo will be in the group, the label stayed ambiguous, saying, "It's undecided. He's in 'Produce 101' season 2 right now, so he's focusing on that."

I think what most of you don't know is that Seongwoo joined Fantagio after they held auditions at his university looking for possible new members for their second actor group. It's a project Fantagio has been working on for over a year, the fact that they let Seungwoo participate on P101 shows his desire to be an idol.

I think that he should debut in a idol group instead of an actor group. I heard somewhere that acting is his major at his school, but I think he should debut as a idol (in a idol group!) first, and then go into acting from there.

Because actor groups may differ from company to company I'll explain 5urprise for you. They're 5 actors that were taught singing, dancing and learnt (sort of) to play instruments. They released a few singles not because they were persuing a career in music but to promote their group. A lot of rookie actors have a hard time getting their first acting gig, but by using their good looks and decent singing voices (they're quite good, not the best but nice enough, you should check it out) they not only put their names out there but also showed directors and producers that in case of needing an actor that can sing or something music-related they're a good option (one of Kangjoon's early roles had to play the piano, and he had already learnt a few pieces which helped accelerate the filming process). Now, they're an actor group and that means that their income is split between the members (Gongmyung has confirmed this) but because they're not idols it's not 20% for everyone, it's unknown however how much goes for everyone (I'd say after the company takes their part, 60% for the guy that earned it and 10% for the remaining four guys is fair). Another advantage of being an actor group is that let's say they're in the middle of the first script reading and the director feels one of the actors doesn't fit the character, that actor could recommend another member of his group and because they've probably seen the script by now or have heard of it so they'd be somewhat familiar to the character and/or story already.
Did I make sense here? ^^;

Depends who... 5urprise is an acting group, it brings opportunities and you have to seize them. Seo Kang Jun is one of Fantagio's biggest stars, Gong Myung is doing REALLY good these days. They help each other by appearing in each other's projects. I don't think they're doing bad at all. And Ong Seung Woo joining an actor group isn't that binding, maybe Fantagio doesn't have enough to debut a male idol group but he can do solo activities as a singer ^^.

Well... if he manages to get in top 11 (which he most likely will) he won't debut in the actor group. Fantagio was really good at making sure Doyeon and Yoojung focused on their produce 101 group activities before debuting them in any group. Whatever path he takes, i will support!

The only reason they made Doyeon and Yoojung focus on P101 was because Fantagio had no plans to debut a girlgroup at the time, this was made clear by Yoojung when she said that going on P101 was her last stab at being an idol because if the opportunity of P101 hadn't come up she was going to leave Fantagio, since they both made it into IOI Fantagio have been rushing to try and slap something together ever since, I just hope they don't screw it up.

Fantagio already had 6 female trainees. They were definitely going to debut a girl group but I guess the success in P101 made them speed up things. ASTRO debuted in 2016 so it's risky for companies to debut new groups in less than a year but ASTRO has proven good growth too, so I guess it was worth the gamble to debut the girls in 2017.

All companies have trainees at any given time, whether they do anything with those trainees is another thing entirely and the main vocal of the group that was on P101 left Fantagio soon after she was eliminated from the show; Fantagio doesn't fill me with confidence, they are good at representing actors because that's the company's main focus and their training system seems to be good as well, but other than ASTRO they have have had more failures than hits when it comes to music groups, they ruined HelloVenus by going too sexy against the majority of fans wishes, 5urprise is a complete failure and now they are going to debut another actor/boy group with the imaginative title Surprise U which is based on the same template as 5urprise and now they are going to do a girlgroup at the same time? I really am worried for those girls.

Surprise only released singles, 3 to be exact. Can't really say much of their idol career because they don't do much. They focus mostly on their individual acting careers which have been doing relatively well (Kang Joon has been the most successful and recognized).
Ong would be the Kang Joon of his group.